Dreiburgen Summer Event 1981
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Event Staff
- Autocrat: Eadwynne of Runedun
From the Crown Prints
The
Peasant
Picnic
Rabble Rally
& Melee Tourney
Monks and Mercenaries
Rebels and Rapscalleons
All are Welcome – even Vikings
On the 21st of June in Hunt park, Dreiburgen is hosting a no hats, no belts, nor titles-of-any-kind melee tourney with a peasant twist. While all are welcome, no titled personae are allowed, nor are double-edged swords to be used as symbols of a higher class.
This picnic is potluck with peasant games and contests all day long for armored and unarmored alike. Country dance classes will be held by Huette Aliza von und etc., an on the spot embroidery contest sponsored by Kristen Alfhilder will be held. and even an unarmored pike war with water blatters! The winners of the beggars’ costume contest will be proclaimed Beggar King and Queen (bring large material scraps to enter).
Schedule:
- 9:00 – Pavillion raising
- 10:00 – Muster
- 10:30 – Armor inspection & Arms Qualification
- 11:30 – Lists close
- 12:00 – Blood, death and looting.
- 5:00 – Beggar Kings Court
- 10:00? Clean up
So strip off your stuffy velvet, your weighty silver crowns, and have a peasant day.
From the Dreiburgen News
Peasant’s Picnic and Rabble Rally Melee
Coming up on the 22nd of June , Dreiburgen is hosting an unbelted melee tourney with a peasant twist. While all re welcome, no titled personae are not allowed, nor are double-edged swords to be used as symbols of rank. Games and contests will be held all day for the armored and unarmored alike, with countrie dancing, classes and water blatter pike battles!
Pitch your hovels at
- 9:00 am in Hunt park
Fighting will begin at
- 12:00 see you there!!!
Memories
Originally this event was not meant to be a tournament. It started out as a potluck, but people feared that without fighting, no one would come out. The tourney was supposed to be “a no hats, no belts, nor titles-of-any-kind melee tourney with a peasant twist” The idea was that there WAS going to be a tourney, but it would be fought with cludgels, axes, pitchforks and other peasanty weapons. Well, that part didn’t really happen. Dreiburgen Summers are HOT. Many fighters showed up, but under the Dreiburgen sun, only one fighter armored up, Andrew Ian of Blackthorne. So I guess that means he won. But we did have peasant games and country dance classes (this kinda started a tradition of Dreiburgen Contradance and we had some great teachers and dancers in the Barony).
We had undercover royalty there. Adrian Buchanon showed up looking and acting like a caveman. I remember trying to herald out the order of the day when he stepped up, swiped my notebook and threw it to the ground, and then threw a copper dagger he'd just made to pin it to the ground. He said simply, "We're peasants, we don't need no stinkin' schedules." He was right, actually. I also recall that Armand de Sevigny in his peasant was there looking more comfortable and disreputable than I'd ever seen him before or since. At one point, he climbed up a tree with a bladder bag, and suggestively squirted a stream from it down on the folks below. We had peasant games and country dance classes (this kinda started a tradition of Dreiburgen Contradance and we had some great teachers and dancers in the Barony). Some folks went all out in their peasant personae. I remember in particular Morgana of the Shadowed Keep, a quite lovely and polite lady, who put her peasant costume outside and under her dogs for over a week to get it "just right." She did her best to look hideous, dragged her feet and flirted salaciously with the guys... who responded in proper horror. She definitely won as Beggar Queen, although I don't remember who won as Beggar King.
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